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liquefy

[lik-wuh-fahy] / ˈlɪk wəˌfaɪ /
VERB
melt
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Gallium is a quirky silver metal with low enough melting temperature that it can liquefy in your hand.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil's projects require onshore facilities to liquefy the gas so it can be transported by sea.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

But the company uses the heat generated by the electricity itself, rather than acid, to liquefy the ore.

From Science Magazine Apr. 30, 2024

“It allows you to completely throw yourself into things that you believe in and liquefy your anxiety,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2023

Lourdes felt the clot dislodge and liquefy beneath her breasts, float through her belly, and slide down her thighs.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Who’s washing it, chopping it, remembering it exists in the crisper drawer before it liquefies?

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

The building’s walls and ceilings are constructed with a vegetable-based material that liquefies on hot afternoons to absorb heat and then solidifies at night.

From Washington Times Jan. 29, 2023

As the gas liquefies, it shrinks, and becomes six hundred times smaller, making it much easier to transport.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2022

The line stops at 111 K because methane liquefies at this temperature; when extrapolated, it intersects the graph’s origin, representing a temperature of absolute zero.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

When solid ice liquefies, heat is absorbed from surrounding materials.

From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes

It became a leading producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas, thanks to international partnerships and investments that had been brokered.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Iran’s attacks early Tuesday targeted a liquefied natural gas tanker from Qatar, whose exports dried up in March and April but have now steadied at high levels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The energy operations supply various fuels used for heating, cooking and transportation, including liquefied petroleum gas, biopropane and renewable dimethyl ether, as well as diesel oil and gasoline.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The sector got a lift from ongoing buildout in natural-gas infrastructure to support both electric power for data centers and liquefied natural gas exports.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

I feel the ground underneath the building rupture—I can almost taste the iron in the liquefied earth.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

As a former undertaker, Morton-Hayward knew the brain is perhaps the softest of the body’s soft tissues: It tends to decay quickly after death, liquefying and leaving only the skull behind.

From Science Magazine Mar. 19, 2024

People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2023

It appears that liquefying garbage was allowed to seep into soil, despite requirements that there should be waterproof layers laid under landfills to contain such seepage.

From Seattle Times Nov. 11, 2022

And how did they convey the sandworm rushing through the sand, liquefying every particle in its path?

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2022

“Maybe we can save some of it,” he says as he finally grasps the Comet can and pulls it out of the water upside down, dumping even more liquefying powder into the tub.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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